October 6, 2024 4:07 am

Meeting Bench

STEEPING IN DEEP NOSTALGIA – Joseph Henry Sharps, all life for the vanishing culture of the American Indian

JOSEPH HENRY SHARPS 1/3 – He was born in a September day, 1859 and lived a long life (with a prolific career as a painter best known for his realistic portrayal of the American Indians). Over his lifetime, Sharp had produced around 10,500 works of art. He was the first painter to visit New Mexico, before Phillips and Blumenschein made …

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JOSEPH HENRY SHARPS (1859/1953), AMERICAN PAINTER – A long life, next to the American Indians

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NEW MEXICO INNER LANDSCAPES

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LISTENING TO THE BREATH OF NEW MEXICO

Taos Pueblo, Native American song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8-miNPmlwE Mescalero Apache War Dance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pef6ktVa_6o Squaw Dance Song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYJz6oFcEFg Flamenco Dance Performance in Sandoval County, New Mexico https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-b0o0GRw4c Gene Booth New Mexico’s Country Music Legend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inz23hC6wUcù

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THE SEA OF GRASS – By Conrad Richter

He simply tells how he thinks things were for both Indians and whites, in a hard time of violence and danger and change on a raw frontier. He was an American novelist, whose lyrical work is concerned largely with life on the American frontier in various periods. Conrad Michael Richter, as a child, he lived with his family in several …

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BEAUTIFUL DREAMS IN NEW MEXICO

EVENING IN NEW MEXICO – Poetry by Andrew Downing Far off the Rio Grande crawls, a silver serpent in the sand. And sweetly, softly, slowly falls the shade of twilight on the land. The mockingbird, that all the day has piped, entangling note with note, in merry song, and roundelay, has quelled the lyrics in his throat. In meditation, buried …

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THE ROUTE 66 IN NEW MEXICO – Among the Hopi, Zuni and Navajo, waiting for the sunrise over El Morro

California and Arizona are behind us. Driving along Route 66, we have not forgotten what is useful, walking on the roads of New Mexico (one of the places to be discovered across the continent most fascinating American States and wealthy): backpack, water bottle filled with water, hat and a good map. Its capital, Santa Fe, is a multicultural city that …

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RUDOLPH CARL GORMAN (1931/2005), NAVAJO PAINTER – Fluid forms and vibrant colors

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SOUNDS AND COLOURS OF ARIZONA

HARMONICA ” ARIZONA ” Country Music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MYfV-QIv4U Sky Blue, Young Sounds of Arizona 7 O’Clock Band https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwpz4wAnEwo Alabama Shakes – Don’t Wanna Fight https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-5OX7CO26c Memoryhouse – Arizona https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqbatT32qQQ

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ARIZONA INNER LANDSCAPES

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